jet (a form of compact, glistening coal, often used in jewelry) · jet (the color of jet coal)
çekim: çoğul azabaches
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáps Proto-Iranian *xšáfš Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎱 (x-š-p /xšapa/) Middle Persian šp (/šab/) Middle Persian špk' (/šabag/)bor. Arabic سَبَج (sabaj) Andalusian Arabic سبج (sabáj)bor. Spanish azabache Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سبج (sabáj), from Arabic سَبَج (sabaj), borrowed from Middle Persian špk' (/šabag/), from šp (/šab/),…
intensive form of siyoh (“black”), jet-black, pitch-black
köken: From earlier form sim-siyoh, a partial reduplication of siyoh (“black”). Contaminated by ziyo (“light”). Compare Turkish simsiyah, Tajik сип-сиёҳ (sip-siyoh), Crimean Tatar sim-siya.
ebony (a hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros) · ebony (a tree that yields such wood)
çekim: çoğul ébenek
köken: From German Eben(holz), from Latin ebenus, hebenus, from Ancient Greek ἕβενος (hébenos), ἔβενος (ébenos).
coal, charcoal · black color · jet-black, very black
köken: From its dialectal variant žúžeľ, which comes from *žužeľь which is derived from *žugь (dialectally žuh for uhoľ). First attested in the 19th century.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَبْنُوس (ʔabnūs), from Persian ابنوس (abnus), from Middle Persian ʾpnws (abnūs), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, of uncertain origin. Doublet of eben.